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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Influenced by others

I don't know about you but I'm highly influenced by those blogs I read. If that is not enough there is Lorna with her FB feed showing off all kinds of stuff. That is how I ended up at Paula's page - The Sassy Quilter.
Have you heard she's hosting Triangle Quilt Along? There is still time to join in, just saying.
As I looked around here blog I found an article on How to Clean a Sewing Machine. Those pictures really made me curious and I finally unscrewed my machine and ......

it looked very similar. Yikes!

This is the first time I actually went in. I was afraid I won't be able to put it back together but it's not that difficult. Once I got it all together I needed to try if it works. What am I going to sew? Few scraps will do it. I pulled out scraps from BH quilt. If you ever made Broken Herringbone you probably have those triangles somewhere as well. I made few squares out of it. I was not worrying about matching the seams just done it in A style and couldn't stop.

You know what A style is? ANYHOW, lol. Some call it improv style but I'm more A kind of girl, he he.

It looks more blue than it actually is. Those colors are more dark green with blue undertone. I ended up with two squares big enough to make cushion cover. Should I do some straight line quilting or try out some FMQ with an A style? We'll see.

Then there is February goal I would like to meet. So I pieced the diamonds for Lonely Star.

I'm currently at decision making on the background fabric. Should I go with dark or stick with white?

I started those two projects and cleaned my machine just because I wasn't feeling like quilting my color wheel quilt. Do you also start new things just because you don't feel like finishing the "old" ones? I know you do! :-)

24 comments:

I absolutely start new things just because I'm not "in the mood" for whatever projects I actually have on the go. I've only cleaned out my machine once and it was a disgrace. I should probably do it again... Maybe next week :-). I think I like the dark background for your star,p. The white looks lovely, but the dark is almost unexpected... It'll look lovely either way, though.E xx

Oh how I love Paula! So glad you found her. She's full of useful little tricks. I admit, I'm a bit obsessive about cleaning out around my bobbin case. I find that my machine hops around and breaks thread fairly frequently if I don't stay on top of it. I am guilty of not oiling my machine, ever. I really need to learn how and when to do that.

I swipe through the bobbin case with a cleaning brush every time I change the bobbin. It helps keep the build-up down to a minimum and it only takes a few seconds. I love your Lone Star...it's probably one of my favorite patterns. I vote for the dark background.

Hmmmmmmmm the star shows up better on the white background, but the brown background is so rich looking - I think it's my favourite!

I do a quick clean out on my machine every week or so --- if I get too much lint in the bobbin case my bobbins jump around and get really noisy. I use a q-tip in that area and use the shop vac to suck out the lint that's easy to get to. About every month I take apart the bobbin casing so I can get under it to clean - I think a lot of machines get really testy when they're too linty - my Babylock sure gets miserable, lol!

I have to say I actually do clean mine out often.... probably every time I screw something up and have to figure out what is going on in there lol. But we can just say it's because Im conscientious and all that and clean my machine regularly lol!

Stopping by from Lee's hop as usual :) http://www.domesticdeficitdisorder.blogspot.com/2014/02/wip-wednesday-feb-19th.html

The star looks great!! I like the dark background too. I need to clean my sewing machine too. Last time I cleaned it was about six months ago. Thank you for reminding me. The blogs I read definitely influence me, like yours :)